Opposing the Thar coal power project, the Planning Commission has said that generating 100 megawatts of electricity from coal is unrealistic.
According to the Planning Commission report, the project is not implementable for the generation of electricity because heat range of gas produced by this project is 150 BTU which is not sufficient for power generation.
On the other hand, cost of purification plant is $ 1.35 million per megawatt that is impossible to execute, a private television channel reported on Tuesday.
According to the Planning Commission, production of gas from coal would cost millions of dollars while electricity production would cost $ 1.96 per megawatt.
The monitoring report says that projects like Thar Coal have never been successful anywhere in the world while it has been feared that underground water may be polluted due to this project.
It further says that experiment of 8 megawatts should be undertaken instead of 100 megawatts.
Planning Commission opposes Thar coal power project
